ICT Senior Database Administrator in London

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced ICT Senior Database Administrator to join our ICT team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in maintaining and developing the database platforms that support critical clinical and non-clinical services across one of the world's leading children's hospitals. In this role, you will help ensure that our database environments remain secure, resilient, high performing and fit for the future.

As ICT Senior Database Administrator, you will work within a highly specialist environment, supporting a large and diverse estate of SQL Server and other database technologies that underpin essential Trust systems. This permanent role is based at Great Ormond Street Hospital in central London and is offered at Agenda for Change Band 8a, 37.5 hours per week.

Main duties of the job:

• Maintain the availability, performance and security of Trust database platforms that support clinical and non-clinical applications.
• Provide expert administration of SQL Server environments and other relational database management systems.
• Lead on database backup, recovery, patching and resilience to ensure service continuity and compliance with service expectations.
• Troubleshoot complex database issues and work closely with internal teams and third-party suppliers to deliver timely resolutions.
• Support database-related projects, system improvements and operational performance initiatives across the Trust.
• Promote best practice in database usage, security and governance with technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Help ensure that data is accessible only to appropriately authorised personnel.

We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job through a fair, open and consistent process that is free from bias and discrimination. We are working towards becoming an anti-racist organisation. This means creating a workplace where every colleague feels seen, heard and valued, and where racism in any form has no place. Our anti-racism commitment is backed by action through our Anti-Racism Statement and action plan, developed in collaboration with our REACH staff network.

We actively challenge discrimination, dismantle barriers and embed equity across all aspects of our workforce, including recruitment, progression and development. All applicants will receive equal consideration regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, health condition or employment history. We particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, people with disabilities or long-term health conditions, and LGBTQ+ community members. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

Our staff networks, including REACH, PRIDE, ENABLED and Women's Networks, are active and executive supported. These employee-led networks play a vital role in shaping an inclusive culture at GOSH and are open to all colleagues. Together, we are building a culture where inclusion is not optional - it is essential.

Person Specification:

• Academic/Professional qualification/Training: Educated to degree level, or equivalent (i.e. extensive experience in senior DBA role), MS SQL DBA Qualification, ITIL Foundation Qualification.
• Experience/Knowledge: Minimum 5 years technical DBA experience gained within a busy IT Operations department, experience of troubleshooting technical and performance problems with SQL Server architectures, experience of troubleshooting technical and performance problems with other RDBMS architectures, demonstrable experience porting data from different environments to SQL Clusters (i.e. MS Access, Oracle, etc.), significant demonstrable experience in a role that required the day-to-day line management including management to and enforcement of SLAs, demonstrable knowledge of an environment that utilised the technologies below: SSRS, SSIS, HA SQL Server clusters.
• Skills/Abilities: Strong negotiating and influencing skills - able to work positively as a team manager, highly articulate - particularly able to express technical ideas to a non-technical audience, strong written skills, ability to reprioritise work streams as required by unexpected events, ability to translate user/business requirements into technical plans/proposals, technical expertise in all the core areas covered by the department.